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New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton said Thursday that he won't remain in the post for a full eight years, should Mayor Bill de Blasio be re-elected in 2017. Speaking at a breakfast event Thursday morning in Manhattan, Mr. Bratton, 67 years old, said, "I will not be commissioner for 6½ (more) years.

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Almost immediately after he escaped from police custody on June 23, outrunning detectives who chased him from a Harlem precinct into a nearby apartment building, Tareek Arnold began harnessing help for his getaway.

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Gunfire inside a Bronx public park injured six people late Sunday night when a dispute at a cookout led at least one person to pull a gun and begin firing, authorities said. Five men and a woman were injured in the shooting, police said. None of the injuries were considered life threatening.

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The teenager wanted in connection with the rape of an 82-year-old woman in Brooklyn was taken into custody early Friday after officers tracked him through a new cellphone he had obtained since the incident, authorities said. Police had been hunting for Asa Roberts, 18 years old, since Monday, when he allegedly sneaked inside the woman's home in Brighton Beach as she was outside sweeping.

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Counterterrorism investigators are looking closely at a monthslong trip the Chattanooga shooting suspect took to Jordan in 2014 to determine if he had contact with any extremists or traveled to other countries, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, spent about seven months in Jordan last year, according to one person close to the investigation.

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Counterterrorism investigators are looking closely at a monthslong trip the Chattanooga shooting suspect took to Jordan in 2014 to determine if he had contact with any extremists or traveled to other countries, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez., 24, spent about seven months in Jordan last year, according to one person close to the investigation.

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A 24-year-old man was injured after he was shot inside a Manhattan diner early Thursday morning, police said. The victim was sitting in a booth at the City Diner on Broadway on the Upper West Side when the gunman entered at about 3:45 a.m., police said.

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NYPD analysis finds African-Americans make up less than 10% of graduating police academy class The class of police academy graduates that will enter the New York Police Department on Thursday includes the smallest percentage of newly hired African-American officers in the past two decades.

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NYPD cites 'significant turnaround,' but homicides, shootings still up in year's first half The New York Police Department on Wednesday touted a "significant turnaround" in crime in June as the city looks to combat a surge in shootings and homicides through the first half of the year.

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Police shot and killed on Friday one of the two convicted murderers who escaped an upstate New York prison and had been on the run for almost three weeks, according to two officials. Richard Matt was shot and killed by police near Lake Titus in Franklin County, N.Y., a person familiar with the matter said.